By Laura Vanderkam
USA Today
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Most small businesses in the USA stay small — or fail. Few grow to have $1 million or more in revenue. So when the non-profit Count Me In organization, which provides support to women entrepreneurs, started seeing former finalists in its Make Mine a Million $ Business competition actually cross the seven-figure mark, the staff wanted to know why. What made these women different? Did they go to Ivy League schools? Maybe they didn’t have families to distract them?The answer might surprise you.
When I caught up with Count Me In founder Nell Merlino at the competition in Newark last week, she told me that these women had something else in common: They all used grocery delivery services. Before they made their millions.
Strange? Sure. But I soon realized that it made sense — and that all of us could benefit from the same mind shift in how we view time and money.
